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- One of the most prominent French philosophes and the author of "L'Encyclopédie", Diderot was born in 1713, the son of a cutler. An ardent student of classical literature, he attended the University of Paris, from which he received a master of the arts degree in 1732. A radical freethinker, Diderot rejected conventional dogma and associated himself with some of the most enlightened philosophers of his age. His books were burned and Diderot himself served three months in Vincennes prison in retaliation for his attacks on the conventional morality of the day. Some of his books were considered so radical that they were banned until after his death.
- After college he studied law. Arthur then practiced as a successful lawyer in New York City. Beginning in 1857, Arthur was employed as a lawyer by the "Second Brigade" of the New York State Militia. In 1859 he married Ellen Lewis Herndon, daughter of a Virginia naval hero. The marriage resulted in three children. Ellen Lewis Herndon died of pneumonia in 1880 and was unable to live to see her husband's subsequent presidency. During the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, Chester Arthur made a name for himself by supplying the troops. In 1868 he supported Ulysses S. Grant's presidential campaign. He also became chairman of the Executive Committee of the New York State Committee. He was heavily involved with the Republicans. In 1871 he was appointed director of customs for the Port of New York.
However, his involvement in the usual patronage of offices of the time resulted in his dismissal in 1878. In 1880, Arthur rose to vice president under the presidency of James Garfield. After his murder, Arthur succeeded to the presidency in September 1881. The new president initiated a reform of the civil service and the expansion and modernization of the fleet. He fought corruption in politics and led a reform-oriented government that enacted the first comprehensive civil service laws in the United States. Arthur also placed great emphasis on the representative aesthetics of his office, which he surrounded with new splendor. However, the Republican Party did not nominate Arthur to run for president in the 1884 presidential election. He therefore left office in 1885 and subsequently retreated into private life.
Chester Alan Arthur died on November 18, 1886 in New York. - Paul Mounet was born on 5 October 1847 in Bergerac, Dordogne, France. He was an actor, known for The Return of Ulysses (1909), Macbeth (1909) and L'héritière (1910). He was married to Philippine Madeleine André Barbot. He died on 10 February 1922 in Paris, France.
- Mór Ditrói was born on 5 October 1851 in Kolozsvár, Hungary [now Cluj, Romania]. He was an actor, known for Júdás (1918), A bor (1933) and A szentjóbi erdö titka (1917). He died on 16 February 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Elvira Tubet was born on 5 October 1853 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. She was an actress, known for Chucho el Roto (1934). She was married to Francisco Machio Gómez. She died on 9 August 1946 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Cinematographer
John Urie was born on 5 October 1854 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Queen of Hearts (1918), The Law of Compensation (1917) and The Prima Donna's Husband (1916). He died on 16 May 1938 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.- Ida Brander was born on 5 October 1857 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Rakkauden kaikkivalta - Amor Omnia (1922), Rautakylän vanha parooni (1923) and Till österland (1926). She died on 15 May 1931 in Kauniainen, Finland.
- Fedor von Zobeltitz was born on 5 October 1857 in Gut Spiegelberg, Prussia, Germany [now Pozrzadlo, Lubuskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Der Klapperstorchverband (1920), Der Sträfling aus Stambul (1929) and Das Gasthaus zur Ehe (1926). He was married to Martha Tützer and Klara Auguste Hackenthal. He died on 10 February 1934 in Berlin, Germany.
- Lady Tree was born on 5 October 1858 in Bexley, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Girl from Maxim's (1933), Wedding Rehearsal (1932) and Still Waters Run Deep (1916). She was married to Herbert Beerbohm Tree. She died on 7 August 1937 in London, England, UK.
- Prince Henry of Battenberg was born on 5 October 1858 in Milan, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Lombardy, Italy]. He was married to Princess Henry of Battenberg. He died on 20 January 1896 in near British Sierra Leone.
- Mme. d'Esterre was born on 5 October 1863 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921), Henry, King of Navarre (1924) and The Sign of Four (1923). She was married to John Norcott D'Esterre . She died on 25 January 1954 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK.
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Louis Lumière was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. His parents were Antoine Lumière, a photographer and painter, and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small photographic portrait studio. Here were born Auguste Lumière, Louis and their daughter Jeanne. They moved to Lyon in 1870, where their two other daughters were born: Mélina and Francine. Auguste and Louis both attended La Martiniere, the largest technical school in Lyon. At age 17, Louis invented a new process for film development using a dry plate. This process was significantly successful for the family business, permitting the opening of a new factory with an eventual production of 15 million plates per year. In 1894, his father, Antoine Lumière, attended an exhibition of Edison's Kinetoscope in Paris. Upon his return to Lyon, he showed his sons a length of film he had received from one of Edison's concessionaires; he also told them they should try to develop a cheaper alternative to the peephole film-viewing device and its bulky camera counterpart, the Kinetograph. This inspired brothers Auguste and Louis to work on a way to project film onto a screen, where many people could view it at the same time. By early 1895 they invented a device which they called the Cinématographe, a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures, and patented it on 13 February 1895. Their screening of a single film, Leaving the Factory (1895), on 22 March 1895 for around 200 members of the Society for the Development of the National Industry in Paris was probably the first presentation of projected film. Their first commercial public screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris on 28 December 1895 for around 40 paying visitors and invited relations has traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema. The cinematographe was an immediate hit, and its influence was colossal. Within just two years, the Lumière catalogue included well over a thousand films, all of them single-shot efforts running under a minute, and many photographed by cameramen sent to various exotic locations. The Lumière brothers saw film as a novelty and had withdrawn from the film business by 1905. The Lumière freres' cinematographer was not their only invention. Mainly Louis is also credited with the birth of color photograph, the Autochromes, using a single exposure trichromic basis (instead of a long three-step exposure): a glass plaque is varnished and embedded with potato starch tinted in the three basic colors (rouge-orange, green and violet-blue), vegetal coal dust to fill the interstices and a black-and-white photographic emulsion layer to capture light. They were the main and more successful procedure for obtaining color photographs from 1903 to 1935, when Kodachrome, then Agfacolor and other less fragile film based procedures took over. An Autochrome is positivated from the same plaque, so they are unique images with a soft toned palette. As the Institut Lumière describes them, they are a middle point between photography and painting (akin specially to pointillism technique), because of their pastel shades and easy but still static pose looks.- Rhody Hathaway was born on 5 October 1868 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Daughter of the Sioux (1925), The Phantom of the Forest (1926) and Bigger Than Barnum's (1926). He was married to Jean Hathaway. He died on 18 February 1944 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Lawrence C. Windom was born on 5 October 1872 in Lancaster, Ohio, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Modern Marriage (1923), Modern Matrimony (1923) and The Very Idea (1920). He died on 14 November 1957 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA.- Actor
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George Irving was born on 5 October 1874 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bringing Up Baby (1938), Man Power (1927) and The Landloper (1918). He was married to Mary Katherine Gilman. He died on 11 September 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Shiel Porter was born on 5 October 1874 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for David Copperfield (1913). He died in 1939 in Chailey, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Edward Pfitzenmeier was born on 5 October 1876 in Connecticut, USA. He was an editor, known for Lucky in Love (1929), Syncopation (1929) and Mother's Boy (1929). He was married to Charlotte Pitzer. He died on 11 December 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner was born on 5 October 1877 in Wloclawek, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wloclawek, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a director, known for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1922). He was married to Helena. He died on 12 June 1969 in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
- Eugénie Hardon was born on 5 October 1877 in Courquetaine, Seine-et-Marne, France. She was married to François de Hérain and Philippe Pétain. She died on 30 January 1962 in Paris, France.
- This knowing, plump-framed, strong-willed actress went on to play the gamut of emotions, from downtrodden, drunken ex-stars to self-controlled dowager empresses, in both silent pictures and early talkies. Grandly supporting the huge stars of her day (including Rudolph Valentino and Will Rogers), she actually started out as a celebrated singer from the vaudeville and Broadway stages; films came much later. While she wasn't as extensively captured on celluloid as, say, a Jane Darwell and is less remembered these days, Louise Dresser nevertheless created a daunting gallery of character matrons in her time and earned the respect of Hollywood.
The Hoosier-born and -bred Dresser was born Lulu Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana, on October 5, 1878, and raised there as the daughter of William and Ida Kerlin, he being a train engineer. She sang as a child and grew up as part of various choirs and shows in town. The family moved to Columbus, Ohio, when she reached her teens (he was killed in a railroad accident not long after their move). With a burning desire to perform professionally, the pretty 16-year-old ran away from home, abandoned her schooling and set her heart on making a career for herself in entertainment. She actively pursued singing roles that could benefit her contralto voice in stock, burlesque and vaudeville. She eventually changed her stage name to Louise Kerlin. During this time she became the lovely singing protégé of Tin Pan Alley composer Paul Dresser (né Paul Dreiser). Known at the time for such songs as "On the Banks of the Wabash" and "Far Away", it was Dresser, the brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, who changed Louise's marquee name to Louise Dresser, and it was Louise who introduced Paul's biggest song hit to American ears, "My Gal Sal". Her affiliation with Paul helped earn her the billing "The Girl from the Wabash."
While on the vaudeville circuit Louise met and married Jack Norworth, a performing monologist, best known in later years for providing the lyrics to such old-time classics as "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "Shine On, Harvest Moon." She made her Broadway debut in "About Town" in 1906, which starred her husband, who also provided the songs. By the time Louise settled into the Broadway scene, however, the couple had divorced (after eight years). Noted for her charm and elegance, Louise specialized in light operettas and musical comedy, and year after year increased her marquee value with such New York musical shows as "The Girls of Gottenberg" (1908), "The Candy Shop" (1909), "A Matinee Idol" (1910), and "From Broadway to Paris" (1912).
Louise met Broadway singing star Jack Gardner (1873-1950) along the way. They married in 1908, a year after her divorce from Norworth. The couple went on to headline together in vaudeville but, interestingly, never managed to appear together on the Great White Way. Into the next decade she graced the New York stage with such singing vehicles as George M. Cohan's "Hello, Broadway!" (1914), and in two of Jerome Kern's: "Have a Heart" (1917) and "Rock-a-Bye, Baby" (1918).
Louise and husband Gardner decided to make a daring pitch for film work by moving to California in 1920. She debuted at age 44 with the film The Glory of Clementina (1922); her actor/singer husband, who appeared in the pictures Hollywood (1923) and Bluff (1924), actually found more success as a Fox Films executive. Forsaking her musical career, she now served as a reliable character actress in silents, making indelible impressions as the title character in The Goose Woman (1925) and as Catherine the Great in the Rudolph Valentino classic The Eagle (1925).
Louise, Janet Gaynor and Gloria Swanson were nominated for the very first "Best Actress" Oscar award, Louise for her strong, touching portrayal of a Hungarian immigrant in A Ship Comes In (1928) opposite Joseph Schildkraut. It was Gaynor, however, who earned the distinction of holding up the first trophy (for her work in three roles) while Swanson and Dresser received "Citations of Merit". Other famous ladies of history Louise addressed in films would include Calamity Jane in Caught (1931) and Empress Elizabeth in The Scarlet Empress (1934).
In the early 1930s the actress made a rare return to the stage with the play "A Plain Man and His Wife" in Pasadena, CA. Quite settled by this time in films, she became a familiar presence opposite homespun comedian Will Rogers in such unassuming Rogers vehicles as Lightnin' (1930), State Fair (1933), Doctor Bull (1933), David Harum (1934) and The County Chairman (1935). Rogers' tragic death in a plane accident ended a very warm and lucrative association she had with the beloved humorist. The devastated Dresser made only one film after that, the Claudette Colbert / Fred MacMurray drama Maid of Salem (1937), which recalled the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s.
Louise and husband Gardner retired to their home in Glendale, CA, where she primarily tended to her favorite pastime (gardening), along with taking part in numerous charitable affairs, notably for the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital. Her husband died in 1950 and she followed suit a decade and a half later following surgery for an intestinal blockage on April 24, 1965, in Woodland Hills, CA. She was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale. - Director
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Ryszard Ordynski was born on 5 October 1878 in Maków Podhalanski, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Maków Podhalanski, Malopolskie, Poland]. He was a director and actor, known for To Be or Not to Be (1942), Palac na kólkach (1932) and Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931). He died on 13 August 1953 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Coen Hissink was born on 5 October 1878 in Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for De zwarte tulp (1921), Der Mann im Hintergrund (1922) and De man op den achtergrond (1922). He died on 17 December 1942 in Neuengamme, Germany.
- Sidney Sinclair was born on 5 October 1878. He was an actor, known for Shopgirls: or, The Great Question (1914). He died on 5 August 1955 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK.
- Musician and writer John Erskine was born in New York City on October 5, 1879. As a child he had a strong interest in music, taking piano lessons for many years; for a time he was being taught by noted composer Edward MacDowell.
Erskine graduated from Columbia University in 1900 and received his PhD in 1903. He was an English instructor at Amherst College and became an Associate Professor there. In 1909 he accepted a position on the faculty at his alma mater, Columbia, and became a full professor there in 1916. He was at Columbia for 28 years and gained a reputation as a highly respected and influential teacher; among his students were future authors Mark Van Doren, Clifton Fadiman, Rexford Tugwell and Mortimer J. Adler.
Erskine also kept up his interest in music, often performing at private functions and on occasion at public concerts. He was a trustee at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music from 1927 and was president of the institution from 1928 to 1937. He also published numerous books, mainly scholarly studies and poetry volumes. He surprised many with his 1928 novel "The Private Life of Helen of Troy", his humorous version of the classic legend set in the contemporary Jazz Age. It was hugely successful, being translated into 16 languages and even turned into a film (The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)).
In 1937 he retired from academic life and took up writing full-time. He published a variety of non-fiction works, two biographies (of Walt Whitman and American revolutionary figure Patrick Henry) and three volumes of memoirs.
He died in New York City on June 2, 1951. - Larry Oliver was born on 5 October 1879 in Carthage, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Born Yesterday (1950) and Born Yesterday (1956). He died on 20 January 1973 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
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Songwriter ("Runnin' Wild"), author, actor and singer, educated at LaSalle University. He was an adverising salesman and then a stage manager in England and Europe, and an actor in London in 1915. He then sang in a trio in night clubs for fourteen years, and joined ASCAP in 1939. His other popular-song compositions include "The Call of the Red, White and Blue", "Come On and Follow Me", "I Got the Fever", "Pickin' the Blues Away", "Rocky Road", and "How Can You Tell?".- Writer
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Marriott Edgar was born on 5 October 1880 in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Band Waggon (1940), Miss London Ltd. (1943) and Hi Gang! (1941). He was married to Mildred Williams. He died on 5 May 1951 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Gustavo Serena was born on 5 October 1881 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Assunta Spina (1915), La signora delle camelie (1915) and Zappatore (1930). He died on 16 April 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Herbert Blaché was born on 5 October 1882 in London, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for The Song of the Wage Slave (1915), A Prisoner in the Harem (1913) and The Million Dollar Robbery (1914). He was married to Alice Guy. He died on 23 October 1953 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Robert H. Goddard was born on 5 October 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Esther Christine Kisk. He died on 10 August 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- William David was born on 5 October 1882 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Here Comes the Bride (1919), The Girl Problem (1919) and Fog Bound (1923). He died on 10 April 1965 in East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Johanne Dinesen was born on 5 October 1882 in Silkeborg, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den døde Rotte (1910) and Det gamle Købmandshus (1912). She died on 10 April 1930 in Monaco.
- Elsa Janssen was born on 5 October 1883 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Pride of the Yankees (1942), The Great Lover (1931) and Claudia (1943). She died on 5 February 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ernst Pittschau was born on 5 October 1883 in Altona, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1917), Germany Year Zero (1948) and Pique Dame (1918). He died on 2 June 1951 in Berlin, Germany.
- Cinematographer
Harry Ensign was born on 5 October 1883 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for In the Park (1915). He died on 13 October 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
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Guido Riccioli was born on 5 October 1883 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Io, Amleto (1952), La donna perduta (1940) and For Men Only (1938). He was married to Nanda Primavera. He died on 28 March 1958 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Josef Somlo was born on 5 October 1884 in Pápa, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a producer, known for The Inheritance (1947), Be Mine Tonight (1932) and The Inn at the Rhine (1930). He died on 29 November 1973 in Locarno, Switzerland.
- Denys Amiel was born on 5 October 1884. He was a writer, known for Le secret du docteur (1930), The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) and Romance à trois (1942). He died on 9 February 1977.
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S.M. Unander was born on 5 October 1884 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is known for The Fire Bride (1922), Marriage (1918) and Marriage for Convenience (1919).- Ida Rubinstein was a Russian actress, dancer and director. She came from a wealthy family, who sent her to music, dancing and acting classes with some of the most prominent teachers in the field. Her performance in a private showing of "Salome" in 1908 created a scandal in conservative Russia when, in the course of her performance of "The Dance of the Seven Vails", she removed most of the veils. The next year she joined the Ballet Russes under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev. She performed in productions of "Cleopatra" and "Scheherezade", but left the organization in 1911 to start her own ballet company. She put on a series of large-scale--and expensive--productions, such as "Le Martyre of Saint-Sebastian". World War I slowed down her career somewhat, but after the war she made appearances in Europe, including a performance of "Istar" at the Paris Opera. From 1928-29 she had her own ballet company, and produced and directed several productions in Paris, with choreography by the famous Bronislava Njinska. She was one of the very few female ballet directors of her time, and her productions were lavish and well-received.
In 1935 she closed down her ballet company in Paris and only made a few more appearances on stage before she retired, her last performance occurring in 1939 in Paris. She died in 1960. - Actor
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Starting out his entertainment career in vaudeville and on the stage, Carter DeHaven entered films while still a teenager and soon achieved fame appearing in productions with his wife, Flora Parker DeHaven. During his long film career he also produced and directed several movies, and Charles Chaplin chose him to be his assistant during the filming of Modern Times (1936). DeHaven began somewhat of a show-business dynasty: in addition to his wife, his daughter Gloria DeHaven is also an actress, and his sister, his son, his grandson and his great-grandson were or still are in the film industry.- Bohumil Hradcanský was born on 5 October 1886 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He is known for Ted' zas my (1939), Prednosta stanice (1941) and Deti na zakázku (1938).
- The Ackermann family came from Thuringia, where the father was a teacher at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts. In 1891, his parents moved back to their homeland of Thuringia and Max Ackermann grew up in Illmenau. His father owned a workshop for frames and furniture, where Ackermann was able to express himself early on with drawings and carvings. He also attended elementary school in Illmenau. He then completed training as a porcelain modeller at the Illmenau porcelain factory. Ackermann's father died in February 1905. Around the same time, the artist also began to model "free" works, with which he took part in various exhibitions. In April 1906, Ackermann first drew attention to his talent at a trade association exhibition in Illmenau. He found a supporter in the teacher Güntzel, who gave him further training in Weimar. There he was, among other things, a student of van de Velde.
As a result of good evaluations, Ackermann was granted exemption from the arts and crafts seminar in Weimar, which he entered in October 1906. There he worked with van de Velde and Hans Olde and attended the nude courses taught by Ludwig von Hofmann and Sascha Schneider at the Weimar Art Academy. In 1907 the artist returned to Illmenau, where he set up a small studio for stone sculpture. In October, Ackermann applied for a scholarship at the Dresden Art Academy, which was granted for two years. In 1908 lessons took place with Richard Müller. At this time, his role models included the works of Max Klinger. In 1909 he spent a short time at the Munich Academy with Franz von Stuck. Here he found artistic engagement with Hans von Marées and Eugen Chevreul's color theories. In 1911 Ackermann moved to Stuttgart, where two of his brothers also lived. Ackermann made his first abstract drawings in Stuttgart.
In 1912, Ackermann completed his studies at the Stuttgart Art Academy. He now began to work independently without contact with other artist groups. In 1915 Ackermann was drafted for military service in the First World War. After being wounded and spending a long time in the hospital, he was released from military service in 1917 as unfit for service. After his return, his work was influenced by the migratory bird movement until the 1920s. In 1919 Alfred Hölzel left the Stuttgart Academy, whereupon Ackermann joined him more closely. In Stuttgart he had several opportunities to become acquainted with modern French and Italian art. In 1920 he took part in an exhibition for the first time as a guest of the Üecht Group. In 1924 Ackermann had his first solo exhibition, in which he showed representational and abstract works. In the same year his mother died in Ilmenau.
In 1926 he traveled to Paris for a week, where he met the Viennese architects Alfred Loos and Hans-Bert Baur. At this time the Stuttgart milieu studies were shown in Paris. In 1930 he was appointed by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pfleiderer was called to give courses in his seminar for absolute painting. In 1932 he met his future wife, Gertrud Ostermayer. From this point on he commuted back and forth between Lake Constance and Stuttgart until the 1950s. In 1936 the National Socialists forbade him to teach at the Stuttgart adult education center. On June 20, 1936 he married Gertrud Ostermayer. Ackermann's pictures were also classified as "degenerate" by the National Socialists and confiscated from the State Gallery in Stuttgart. Ackermann retreated to Hornstaad on Lake Constance - a place that became a painter's colony. Helmuth Macke, Otto Dix and Erich Heckel also settled here.
From 1938 onwards, Ackermann was intensively involved in the development of his abstract works. In 1943 his studio in Stuttgart was destroyed by an air raid; Many, mainly early, works were burned. Together with his wife, Ackermann founded an art education institute on Lake Constance in 1952. In 1956, the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association appointed Ackermann to the "Council of Ten" as the successor to the late Willi Baumeister. In 1957, on his 70th birthday, Ackermann was given the honorary title of professor by the Ministry of Culture in Stuttgart. In 1958 her marriage to Gertrud Ostermayer ended in divorce. While Ackermann was in Beatenberg for treatment, he contacted Horst Kaiser at the Karlsruhe Apfelbaum Gallery, who from then on represented him. In 1964 he became a guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1967, the first major retrospective "Paintings from 1908 to 1967" opened in Koblenz, Kaiserslautern, Konstanz, Wolfsburg and Cologne.
On his 85th birthday in 1972, Ackermann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class. From 1973 he sought refuge in the Paracelsius Hospital in the Black Forest, but was able to continue his work. In 1974, the 87-year-old married Johanna Strathomeyer.
Max Ackermann died on November 14, 1975 in Unterlengenhardt in the Black Forest. - Manny Ziener was born on 5 October 1887 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Life of Richard Wagner (1913), Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (1940) and Der Millionenschuster (1916). She was married to Bruno Ziener. She died on 4 May 1972 in Berlin, Germany.
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Anchise Brizzi was born on 5 October 1887 in Poppi, Tuscany, Italy. Anchise was a cinematographer, known for The Pirates of Capri (1949), Il caso Haller (1933) and The Dream of Butterfly (1939). Anchise died on 29 February 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Tsolak Amerikyan was born on 5 October 1887 in Trapizund, Ottoman Empire [now Trabzon, Turkey]. He was an actor, known for Zangezur (1938), Mor sirte (1958) and Hyusisayin tziatzan (1960). He died on 17 August 1964 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia].
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Mary Fuller's entrance into motion pictures was quite accidental. She was with a theatrical troupe that was on its way to tour the South in 1908 when, during a short stopover in New York City, the company broke up. Stranded, Mary made her way to the Vitagraph film studio looking for a job and, with her experience and attractiveness, was put to work in action and comedy one-reelers. By 1914 she had achieved enough recognition for Edison to give her the lead in a serial, which was a big hit. Universal Pictures took notice of her, and she headed west. However, two years later she just packed up and walked away from Hollywood. She made one picture in 1917, then disappeared. A magazine writer found her in 1924, living in Washington, DC, with her mother. She said that she had tired of the hard work involved in making pictures, that she had invested her money and was living comfortably. She mentioned that she was thinking of going back to making films, but soon after the interview was published, she disappeared again. Nothing was ever heard from her until 1973, when it was discovered that she had died, of natural causes, in a Washington, DC, mental hospital. No one had ever been able to find out for certain what happened to her between her 1924 interview and her death in 1973.- Actress
Lucy Neville Smith was born in Washington, DC. She was the only daughter of astronomer Edwin Smith and his wife Lucy Scott Smith. She was highly educated for her age and was encouraged by her father to continue her education into college. She went on to be a dedicated public servant working for the federal government for most of her life. Lilith was her only acting credit before her death on November 10, 1980, at the age of 92.- Herluf Jensenius was born on 5 October 1888 in Denmark. He died on 17 July 1966 in Denmark.
- Lionel Brown was born on 5 October 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Price of Wisdom (1935), Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955) and To Have and to Hold (1951). He died on 15 June 1964 in College Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK.